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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: GSUB init, medi, fina and .fea file
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 17:15:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120201151535.GD3054@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F28773D.7080406@web.de>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 12:20:29AM +0100, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have the following OpenType feature archive (intended to use diferent
> forms for initial and medial/final beta, theta and phi):

Quoting my answer from a different list:

  If you are using init/fina features, it will only work with
  Arabic/Syriac and similar scripts where it is needed for basic
  shaping, most OpenType engines (including the one Hans wrote for
  LuaTeX) don't support them for other scripts. However, you can use
  contextual substitution to implement the word boundary logic into your
  OpenType code, but that is a bit tricky.

But since this is an often requested feature, and given that Adobe apps
support these features for Latin script, I think it is worth supporting
them in ConTeXt as well, it should be bit simpler than the Arabic logic
already supported.

Regards,
 Khaled
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 23:20 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-02-01 15:15 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2012-02-01 15:36   ` Hans Hagen
2012-02-01 16:16     ` Pablo Rodríguez

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